POWER POINT PRESENTATION

1. VICTOR MARIE HUGO
JINCY.V
ENGLISH OPTONAL
THE SOWER

2. VICTOR MARIE HUGO
 French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the
Romantic movement.
 considered one of the greatest and best known
French writers
 Born: February 26, 1802, Besancon, France
 Best works: Les Miserable, 1862, The Hunchback
of Notre-Dame
 Died: May 22, 1885, Paris, France

3. THE SOWER (POEM)
Sitting in a porch way cool,
Fades the ruddy sunlight fast,
Twilight hastens on to rule--
Working hours are well nigh past
Shadows shoot across the lands;
But one sower lingers still,
Old, in rags, he patient stands,--
Looking on, I feel a thrill.
Black and high his silhouette
Dominates the furrows deep!
Now to sow the task is set,
Soon shall come a time to reap.

4. THEME OF THE POEM
The Sower is appreciated by the viewer. The Sower is
sowing food: life. The Sower is poor and surely has seen
bad harvests, but he is ever-hopeful for a bounteous
harvest with each toss of grain. The man is old, but the
energy in "throws, flings, grand gestures of his hand"
suggests an ageless being. His work and hope lifts up to
Heaven. He is appreciated, with much emotion, by the
observer who is watching "the last lone hour of work." It
may well be that the old man will not live long enough to
himself see the result of his sowing, but it is probable that
he is not sowing merely for himself.

5. VOCABULARY
 PORCHWAY
small area at the entrance of a building

6.  TWILIGHT
the soft glowing light from the sky when the sun is below the
horizon.

7.  FURROW
a long narrow trench made in the ground by a plough

8. Scaffolding questions
 What are the activities involved in
farming?

9. ANSWER
 The various activities involved in
farming are ploughing, sowing,
manuring, weeding and reaping.

10.  Where is the speaker sitting?

11. ANSWER
 The speaker is sitting in a porch.

12. Discourse construction
Write the profile of Victor
Marie Hugo

13. VICTOR MARIE HUGO
Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, novelist
anddramatist of the Romantic Movement. He is
consideredas one the greatest andbest known French
Writers. His best known works were ‘Less Miserables’ and
‘Norte Dame de Paris’. He passedaway in 1885.

14. FOLLOW-UP-ACTIVITY
WRITE A POEM DESCRIBING
THE BEAUTY OF A VILLAGE.